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From:   Kurt Van Dijck <dev.kurt@vandijck-laurijssen.be>
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On do, 18 jun 2020 00:36:29 +0200, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> On 6/17/20 6:59 PM, Kurt Van Dijck wrote:
> > I'm in the process of getting a Variscite imx8m mini SOM online, with
> 
> Have your heard about the imx8m plus? It has CAN cores! We have a board in the
> office to play with. :)
> 
> > MCP2517FD. The 4.19 kernel that comes with it, has a driver that is
> 
> You shall not start projects with 1,5 years old kernel.
> And you probably shall not use vendor kernel for new projects.
> :D

your rpi kernel starts of v4.19.119 (or so), where the variscite starts
of v4.19.35.
The result was quite some list of merge conflicts, on top of a vendor
kernel, so I took your advise and switched to the latest and greatest
5.7.3.
Luckily, we need no sound (yet) and no video. :-)

> 
> Not much, some bus off cleanups, however I've backported all changes to
> v4.19-rpi/mcp25xxfd-20200429-41 (debug and log is still included).
> 
> When you port this to your mx8 take all from (including)
> 
>     097701d1ea4f can: dev: avoid long lines
> to
>     v4.19-rpi/mcp25xxfd-20200429-41
> 

I'll merge one of your latest ...

Kurt